Business-to-business transaction processing utilizing electronic payment network
First Claim
1. A method of making a payment over an electronic payment processing network, the method comprising:
- transferring an amount of funds from an issuer of a payor to an account of a dummy acquirer entity; and
transferring the amount of funds from the account to an issuer of a payee.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to methods and systems allowing an electronic payment processing network to be utilized to conduct transactions between businesses (B2B) or other entities. In one embodiment, funds may be transferred between businesses (buyer, seller) through a payment processing network utilizing offsetting credit and debit transactions to an account with a dummy acquirer entity. This payment may be achieved utilizing only conventional message types (request for authorization, settlement) that are expected to be transmitted over the network during the course of a familiar merchant/consumer purchase transaction.
98 Citations
20 Claims
-
1. A method of making a payment over an electronic payment processing network, the method comprising:
-
transferring an amount of funds from an issuer of a payor to an account of a dummy acquirer entity; and transferring the amount of funds from the account to an issuer of a payee. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
-
-
10. A host processing engine for use in conjunction with an electronic payment processing network, the host processing engine comprising:
-
a processor; and a computer readable storage medium in electronic communication with the processor and having stored thereon code instructing the processor to, receive from a payor, a request to transfer of an amount of funds from a payor to a payee utilizing an electronic payment network, in response to receiving the request, send instructions to transfer the amount of funds from an issuer of a payor to an account of a dummy acquirer entity, and send instructions to transfer the amount of funds from the account of the dummy acquirer entity to an issuer of a payee. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
-
-
14. A method of transferring funds over an electronic payment processing network, the method comprising:
-
conducting a first transaction over the electronic payment processing network debiting an amount from an issuer of a payor and crediting the amount to an account of a dummy acquirer entity; and
thenconducting a second transaction over the electronic payment processing network crediting the amount to an issuer of the payee and debiting the amount from the account of the dummy acquirer entity, wherein the first and second transaction are conducted utilizing only messages of a type employed in the course of a merchant/customer payment. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
-
Specification